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The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Add Begin Familiarity Ideas Most Novelty Promising Then

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

~Aesop

Topics: Breeds Contempt Familiarity

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This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

~Albert Claude

Topics: Agony Appreciation Case Death Experienced Familiarity His Influenced Long Me Medicine Might Mother Physician Respected Study Tormented Tragedy Wanting Work

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I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

~Alex North

Topics: Better Combination Familiarity Hear Lack Like Resulting Something Strangeness Two Word

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She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.

~Anne Edwards

Topics: Attention Body Camera Claimed Could Every Expect Expression Face Familiarity Glare Her Immediacy Kind Loved Lover Naked She Slavish Trusted Warmth

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I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

~Binyavanga Wainaina

Topics: Africa Childhood Familiarity Feeling Idea Like Readers Whether

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Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

~Boris Spassky

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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Actually Answer Attaining Best Deepest Familiarity Having Our Question Sometimes Substitute

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Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

~Campbell Scott

Topics: Advantage Director Familiarity Feel Find Go Literal Part Place Practical Producer Result Spiritual Things Trying You

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My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

~Chaka Khan

Topics: Breeds Contempt Familiarity Philosophy

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